Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

Abundance is dope

*if not of

Dunno that first track bangs. Those distorted low snares that come in near the end remind me why I started producing to begin with - pure frequency, texture - bangs hard

Late great I would totally take you for a beer man. But those drums around 2 40 on the 2nd track start to mirror the melody and this is definitely the most overt aphex has been in sometime. Aphex encourages new ways of listening
I think

tbh I understand the criticism in this thread and for the most part this is exactly what the good people of ILM made one thousand posts about when Syro was released. 90s Aphex was cool in that his tunes were more conceptual and memorable and you could write about them in a way that was intriguing and fun. it had the prankster and outsider element to it. whereas his new music is knotty and technical and quite frankly a lot of it sounds the same as itself. it's no fun to write about. hence why so many Syro reviews made an entire paragraph describing the last track.

this EP definitely feels distinct though - it has that aural rollercoaster feel to it that a lot of the good Aphex stuff does. sounds awesome too. suddenly I'm interested in this guy again.

Abundance feels like tornado Wallace on speed.

One thing I can get behind with this ep is the merger of frenetic percussion with ambient synths or vocal melodies. Abundance borders on r n b with those vocal loops but does not deploy them enough to make that concrete

Often the drums are pitched to the music which is fucking solid

Also frog otm

One thing I can get behind with this ep is the merger of frenetic percussion with ambient synths or vocal melodies.

Put that way it *does* sound like completely new territory for Aphex Twin ;-)

Lol :)

Syro was more melodic than this. He has been branching out, even though timbrally it feels like all's said and done at this point in his 'late' period.

What you mean I don't know good music, I have Disco Duck on 45

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, September 19, 2018 5:48 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have the album!

90s Aphex was cool in that his tunes were more conceptual and memorable and you could write about them in a way that was intriguing and fun. it had the prankster and outsider element to it. whereas his new music is knotty and technical and quite frankly a lot of it sounds the same as itself. it's no fun to write about.

Just FTR, my personal reception of new Aphex has nothing at all to do with what it's like to "write about it"...

So far I'm really enjoying this. It has a lot more personality than the other stuff he's put out this decade. Yes, it sounds like an Aphex recording, but it also sounds very much of the moment in terms of production quality and complexity.

I like the middle section on the first track where the drums sound like they are speeding out if control. And I agree that the second track is taking its cues from Jlin.

xp I mean, you can substitute whatever...talk about, think about, be inspired by, etc. etc. for me my entryway into Aphex was the cover to the Richard D. James album + some article talking about how he was making rhythm tracks out of Coke cans + that thing where he hid his face in the spectrogram of a track. having no clue what IDM was I had to know what this kind of music sounded like. of course it wasn't just the gimmicks that made this stuff so classic, using more tangible melodies had something to do with it. like a lot of "outsider" stuff that becomes famous it's some combo of weirdness and accessibility.

again, from a casual fan's perspective, there's a lot more to chew on here compared to Cheetah, Syro, or the Acoustic Computer whatever EP (which I really liked). it's 28 minutes but I feel like I'll get the most mileage out of this record than any other I've heard so far in 2018.

Aphex is good and talented and we should be glad he still does his things. We’re all armchair critics, what’s your contribution to society? Posts on Ilx?

Syro was really, really great. That second track!

Is that Xmas ??

Oh that’s great !

We’re all armchair critics, what’s your contribution to society? Posts on Ilx?

I deliver babies in war zones, and post in ILX in my spare moments.

Hahaha good poster

this thread has accumulated roughly as many new answers since yesterday as the jlin thread has accumulated in three years

i think that is bad, not good

i guess tbf half of those posts are me complaining about how overrated aphex twin is

is the jlin thread full of trolls trying to piss on people's enjoyment of the music

xp lol

Lol

it's not trolling to say you think music (a song, an album, an artist, artist's body of work for the last 10-15 years) isn't that good

eg

people are fucking morons especially people who like this trash band

― crüt

people are fucking morons especially people who like this trash band recent aphex better than jlin

― crüt

fixed

i regret nothing

i'm not sure anyone's arguing that recent aphex is better than jlin

I will

:P

i know, i know

just making a point about trolling vs dissent

people are fucking morons especially people who like this trash band recent aphex better than jlin big & rich

in fact on the jlin thread i believe i made the argument that the only person even operating at her level is afx

Would pay crut to be my editor tbh

I’m cool with jlin if I got migraine pills handy

At least oval had sympathy for my broken discman

aw, i like black origami

recent aphex is better than autechre tho

I like kyanite a lot

Just like having fun cheers

Which way Dave

recent aphex is better than autechre tho

slam the brakes buddy

Feels like a road runner cartoon

lol so many twists and turns on opinions dr

ZANY APHEX = NO THANK U

I like Jlin, and I'm glad Aphex Twin is learning something from her.

at least they are not Sophie.

I liked Cheetah better but this pretty good, especially “1st 44”

Jed - what’s that mean about Sophie??